It’s been a great run. After 2+ years of being one of the co-leaders of the Orange County SmugMug User Group, SmugMug is sunsetting all of their groups. This will be the very last meeting of the OC SmugMug. Come join us as the amazing Phillip Ritchie joins us to talk about fine art portraiture. For details, go to the new OCPAC event page, found HERE. You’ll need to join the group to see it. Click HERE to get to the group page.

Come join us for our last SmugMug Meeting! Remember Smugs are FREE, so bring a friend and a snack to share! Come at 6:15pm to mingle. Talk starts promptly at 6:30pm! Don’t be late1845 Park Ave Costa Mesa!

XOXO, Hanssie and Michelle

Philip Ritchie is a fashion and commercial photographer and an amazing visual creative who knows just how to photograph a woman’s form. He’ll be talking about how to see more creatively, slowing down, taking less images, getting the images you need, having fun and making photography interesting. A Costa Mesa local, we’re fortunate to have him join us.

From Philip:

With a bad economy how do you rise above this and get more paying work create images that sell as Fine Art? I will show and tell you what I have done to overcome this to where I now have a busy Studio. I will have my photography on display plus a slide show and explain how they were achieved and created, I also plan on having a model and MUA / Stylist there.

I have been a full time photographer for 14 years, mainly Commercial for the first 7 years, thereafter I concentrated on Fashion this led to working and understanding Fashion In Fine Art as I now sell my work on line and in Galleries plus I am now creating Ebooks of my photography. I wish I had meet someone like myself when I first started, to explain how to get to what I could see in my mind and how to create it but alas I did not. So now I am spending some of my time showing my photography and explaining how I created them in Seminars, plus teaching one-on-one at my studio in Costa Mesa understanding light and shadow plus composition, I am now seventy and this is my second Career.